The idle musings of a former military man, former computer geek, medically retired pastor and now full-time writer. Contents guaranteed to offend the politically correct and anal-retentive from time to time. My approach to life is that it should be taken with a large helping of laughter, and sufficient firepower to keep it tamed!

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My thoughts exactly.

Of course, I try real hard to NOT by gasoline from stations owned/run by persons of Middle-Eastern descent for fear the money will go to fund terrorists. Especially in my home town, where it seems ALL the gas stations are run by those sorts of folks. They also all seem to have two prices, one for cash, and a slightly higher price for credit. For one, I'm not going to carry around huge wads of cash to pay for gas, and second, I'll bet they want the cash so as to better enable them to support their terrorist buddies without being traced.

I was informed (by a person who was utterly serious) that only members of the hegemonic (dominant) class/race can be racist. So only whites are racists. All others are demonstrating appropriate ethnic pride and support for fellow members of oppressed subaltern groups. And even where whites are a minority of the population, they are still culturally dominant. I wasn't certain if I should laugh, cry or just walk away shaking my head. LittleRed1

Anonymous number one can rest easier. Most places that offer a discount on cash is because there's typically a 3% charge to run a credit transaction. That's also why most card machines are set up for debit for the default--the vendor doesn't have to pay for the transaction. There's laws limiting how much and how you can describe the discounts, but that's probably why they offer it. I doubt it has much to do with funding terrorism.

I asked them about using my debit card at those gas stations. They consider a debit card the same as a credit card and want to nick me for the additional charge. I told them they can stick that policy where the sun doesn't shine.

Those extra charges to the business is part of the cost of doing business. I wish other folks would also boycott them to get them to change their policy.

--chicopantherPS I'm not anonymous as I sign my name to my comments. I just am not going to sign up for yet another account on the internet!

It's nothing new. When I started college at the University of Georgia in 1980, there was a Black Student Union on campus, and there was a Miss Black UGA pageant. Nobody even raised an eyebrow. Imagine the uproar if someone had tried to start a White Student Union, or tried to stage a Miss White UGA pageant.

It's pretty standard when studying this subject in academic circles that the previously stated sentiment is true: the only -ism that matters is that exercised by the privileged against the not-privileged. Yes, they are dead serious about that, and yes, you will be dismissed as an ignorant, under-educated and over-privileged yobbo if you disagree.